Art and architecture of the near east Head of a statue o Israel o c 7000 BCE o Marble Plastered Skull o Jericho o c 7000 BCE o Plaste bone Plan and remains of Chatal Huyuk o Turkey o c 6500 5500 BCE Ancient Sumer c 3500 2430 BCE o Cuneiform o Cylinder Seals o Flood Tablet Title XI The epic of Gilgamesh o Uruk Vase c 3300 3000 BCE Alabaster register o Warka Head Uruk c 3300 3000 BCE Marble o Nanna Ziggurat Ur c 2100 2050 BCE Unbaked and sunbaked bricks Bitumen o Sumerian votive figure Ur c 2900 2600 BCE Limestone o Votive statues From Eshnunna Temple c 2900 2600 BCE Limestone o Great Lyre with Bull s Head Ur c 2500 2400 BCE Wood with gold silver lapis lazuli bitumen and shell King Meskalamdug Akkad c 2340 2180 o Head of an Akkadian ruler Sargon I Akkad c 2300 2200 BCE Bronze o Stele of Naramsin Akkad c 2254 2218 BCE Limestone Detail of Naramsin conquering the Lullubi Hieratic scale hierarchy of scale Largest are most important Lagash c 2150 BCE o Votive statue of Gudea From Lagash c 2120 BCE Diorite Geshtinanna o Seated statue of Gudea From Lagash c 2100 BCE Diorite Babylonia c 1792 1530 BCE o Stele of Hammurabi c 1792 1750 BCE Basalt Iconography Assyria c 1000 612 BCE o Lamassus From palace of Assurnasirpal II Assyria c 883 859 BCE Limestone o Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions Assyria c 850 BCE alabaster Neo Babylonia c 611 560 BCE o Reconstruction drawing of Babylon in the 6th century BCE o Nebunchadnessar II o Ziggurat to Marduk Tower of Babyl o Hanging Gardens o Ishtar Gate Babylon c 575 BCE Glazed brick Persia c 559 300 BCE o Plan and image of the palace complex at Persepolis Persia c 515 486 BCE Apadana ceremonial complex highlighted in red o Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute From the Apadana Persepolis c 491 86 BCE